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Time and energy. Plus, few people here bothered to buy the book, which IMO was a bare 2.5/5 for me. Worth reading, but didn't hook me to the series. I have little inclination to continue reading the series, even if I had entered.
Yes, I'd been calling them VP nacelles for Variable Profile. But as we all know, they also mean Viagra Powered. At least the collapsed configuration doesn't hang limply from the sides of the ship at a 90-degree angle, and isn't particularly sensitive to phaser cutting beams from the USS Bobitt...
But my rationalization was to give the ship a minor gimmick that would demonstrate the "deep space" in Titan's mission. Lots of people wanted four nacelles, but the writers said no.
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I was going to design one. I even went out & bought the book, thinking that the story would give away some hints as to some design attributes. Unfortunately, the only thing the book had were those totally useless "rules" at the end. And then life got in the way, and lo and behold, I ran out of time.
However, if I knew that some totally unoriginal kitbash that zero thought went into was going to win, I'd have taken five minutes of my time to draw up a design and submit it, 'cause something I thought up in five minutes would have been better than this.
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Because ships designed to look like they were built around the same time as other ships always look different...
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I find it positive that the rules at least dictated a ship smaller and somewhat less capable than Sovereign. However, I'd have expected the "balance" of the Luna to be different as a result. This ship is fairly vanilla, without outstanding features.
OTOH, I think it's a good idea that this ship would look like a Sovereign kitbash. The Luna is likely to be something dreamed up simultaneously with Sovereign, only delayed a decade because of the war. Truly modern, postwar elements on her would be few.
A downside IMHO is the "unfinished" geometry of the primary hull, making this ship look somewhat amateurish. More graceful curves, more strictly adhering to some obvious mathematical formula, would remove the low-poly computer game ship feel.
I agree with Mark that the ship would have needed some gimmick in order to be interesting. The dorsal module ain't cutting it. In fact, having a swappable-looking module on a ship that is supposed to spend long times away from port is quite illogical!
quote:Originally posted by Mars Needs Women: It's an okay design but certainly not one I would consider for the cover.
Of all Titan designs I've seen this is probabaly my favorite
A small, fat, badly drawn Galaxy class?
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The website says that the design was judged on:
" ...categories of originality, execution, consistency with the U.S.S. Titan Concept Notes, and consistency with Star Trek's established Starfleet style. "
Now I can see why he scored high on the last one - it's just bits robbed off of other starships, but I'm not so convinced he's managed to pull it off in other areas. I just dont like it.
On the otherhand, maybe we should just admit that we were secretly wishing for some uber fanboy, planet crunching, deathray weilding, mother of a ship with a few more flashing lights, and what we got is a bit limp (like those nacelles?).
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I think this is the Titan design I've liked the best; too bad he blew the deadline. Of course, it doesn't look like anything currently in Starfleet and, therefore, probably would have lost.
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Well, the Sovereign is a shit design to begin with, so it's not hard to see this fits the Starfleet style
Kidding aside, though, this design is not very exciting. It's not that bad, but not very good either. Typically the kind of design you sort of gloss over on Starshipschematics.net and don't pay much attention to.
quote:Originally posted by HerbShrump: I think this is the Titan design I've liked the best; too bad he blew the deadline. Of course, it doesn't look like anything currently in Starfleet and, therefore, probably would have lost.
Oh wow . . . that's exactly what I'd have expected a 25th Century ship to look like, just going from TNG.
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quote:Originally posted by The Ginger Beacon: On the otherhand, maybe we should just admit that we were secretly wishing for some uber fanboy, planet crunching, deathray weilding, mother of a ship with a few more flashing lights, and what we got is a bit limp (like those nacelles?).
Nah, just wanted something original.
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quote:Originally posted by HerbShrump: I think this is the Titan design I've liked the best; too bad he blew the deadline. Of course, it doesn't look like anything currently in Starfleet and, therefore, probably would have lost.
This design is great, quite simple and stylish. No hard shapes. I like it very much.
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I ran out of time with my design as well. Personally, I would have liked to have seen a neck on the Titan. I just don't like the direction most designs have gone with the no-neck squashed look. The winner does look very derivative, and overall it just doesn't flow, unlike the Galaxy class.
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Yeah! Something like that unfinished concept in Herb's post. Or that one Alan did a while back. Not some half-assed Galaxy-clone, and most certainly not a cut'n'paste job that's no better than one that someone as artistically-retarded as me could do in 1998.
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